A.(1) The deputy secretary for public safety services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall provide that public safety services police officers regularly patrol all areas within the state capitol complex to maintain peace and order and to prevent and detect crime.

            (2) Within the areas in the state capitol complex that are occupied and utilized by the members, officers, and staff of the legislative branch of state government, all public safety services police officers shall coordinate with and be subject to the direction of the director of capitol security in accordance with Chapter 12 of Title 24 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

            B. Nothing in this Section shall be construed or interpreted in any manner as to affect the rights, powers, and duties of any sheriff, constable, police officer, or other law enforcement officer with jurisdiction over any area within the state capitol complex.

            C. For the purposes of this Section, the term “state capitol complex” shall mean that area in the city of Baton Rouge, containing the state capitol building and bounded on the south by Main Street, on the west by the Mississippi River, on the north by Choctaw Drive, and on the east by the Kansas City Southern Railway tracks.

            Acts 2004, No. 569, §1; Acts 2022, No. 507, §2, eff. June 16, 2022.